... From a picnic blanket near Chicago out past the VirgoCluster of Galaxies , every ten seconds the film zooms out to show a square a factor of ten times larger on each side. ...
... The just-identified Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies contains thousands of galaxies that includes our Milky Way Galaxy , the Local Group of galaxies, and the entire nearby VirgoCluster of Galaxies . ...
... NGC 4762, a galaxy in the nearby VirgoCluster of Galaxies , is so thin that it is actually difficult to determine what type of disk galaxy it is. ...
... About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster . ...
... From a picnic blanket near Chicago out past the VirgoCluster of Galaxies , every ten seconds the film zooms out to show a square a factor of ten times larger on each side. ...
... One group, led by astronomer Allan Sandage, measures distances to galaxies using pulsating Cepheid variable stars and supernovae observed in galaxies like the VirgoCluster spiral galaxy, NGC4639, shown above. ...